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Symbionese Liberation Army

Symbionese Liberation Army. By: Jenniffer Anderson Nathan Wilcox Jordanne Bakewell. Demographics. Ages 18-25 Educated Academic Scholarship Training With CIA Stable Lives Wealthy Families All But One White. Political Affiliation. Left Fringe Violence Champions of the Oppressed

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Symbionese Liberation Army

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  1. Symbionese Liberation Army By: Jenniffer Anderson Nathan Wilcox Jordanne Bakewell

  2. Demographics • Ages 18-25 • Educated • Academic Scholarship • Training With CIA • Stable Lives • Wealthy Families • All But One White

  3. Political Affiliation • Left Fringe • Violence • Champions of the Oppressed • Considered themselves leaders of the Black Revolution • Dissident Terrorist Group

  4. SLA Beginnings • Started as a result of • Prison Visitation Program • Venceremos • Tupamaros • Movement in Uruguay • Radical Left Film Screenings • Sympathy for the Devil • 60’s Anti-War Movement

  5. Beliefs • Concentration Camps • Political Prisoners • Motto • "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of people."

  6. Hydra Symbol • Seven Principles of Kwanzaa • Unity • Self-determination • collective work and responsibility • Cooperative economics • purpose • creativity • faith

  7. Dr. Foster • SLA’s First Public Act Foster First Black Superintendent of Schools Unlikely Target • Killed Because • Student ID Cards • Police Officers in Schools • Died November 6,1973

  8. Aftermath • Rumors of Blame • Racially Confused Descriptions • Communiqué No. 1 • Rejection of SLA

  9. Patty Hearst • Kidnapped • February 4, 1974 • Bank Robbery • April 15 1974 • Ransom $70 Food • Tania • Hideout Burned • May 1974 • Six Died

  10. Patty Hearst Cont…. • Arrested Sep. 1975 • Claimed Harsh Psychological Treatment • Trial • Convicted • March 20, 1976 • Sentence Commuted • Jimmy Carter • February 1, 1979 • Pardoned • Clinton • January 20, 2001

  11. Brainwashing Design • Confinement under inhuman conditions to lower resistance • The insistence on confession of past misdeeds • Manipulating confessions into the context of the ideology • Telling the person that his former society had turned against him

  12. Brainwashing Cont…. • "Undeserved" liberties are granted commensurate with the person's conversion which makes the person grateful to his captors. • The person's weakened physical state and feeling of shame and inferiority merge into a bond with the captor • Captors prove their sincerity by using the same tactics on their fellow prisoners. • Even upon returning to society, the person will experience confusion and doubt.

  13. End of SLA • Most of Members Gone • Fire • Prison • In Hiding

  14. References Baker, Marilyn,. Brompton, Sally,. (1974). Exclusive!: The inside story of Patricia Hearst and the SLA. New York: MacMillan Publishing. Hearst, Patricia., Moscow, Alvin. (1982). Every secret thing. New York. Doubleday and Company. Pearsall, Robert. (1974). The Symbionese Liberation Army. New York. McGraw-Hill. Symbionese Liberation Army (1974). www.courttv.com

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